Róisín Shortall TD (top left) and Social Democrat party co-leader, Catherine Murphy TD (top right) with party councillors and spokespeople gathered for the SocDems Think In.

The theme ‘The Locked Out generation’ refers to young people and families in their twenties and thirties unable to secure proper homes. The party advocates a use it or lose it police for land hoarders.

Ms Murphy said:

“It can’t be business as usual. It has to be a war office-type approach to the area of homelessness.”

Of a possible role in a future coalition, Ms Shorthall said.

“We want to be in Government. We want to be working with other parties in order to change the direction of this country. So we’re not in the business of ruling people in or ruling people out,”

Wasn’t the SocDems split largely a result of the remaining 2 TDs not wanting to go into government 18 months ago? Its a shame she couldn’t reach this same conclusion then, they would have done more good than Shane Ross et al. …and also probably wouldn’t have splintered the party into irrelevance, in addition.